Gonorrhea Bacterium Manipulates an Anti-Infection Mechanism in the Female Reproductive Tract (IMAGE)
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in the human endocervical tissue is visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy. Bacterial (red) colonization causes columnar endocervical epithelial cells to shed and lose the barrier function, which allows bacteria to enter the endocervical tissue. Frozen tissue sections were stained for immunofluorescence with specific antibodies to the apical junctional protein ZO1 (green) and N. gonorrhoeae (red) and the nuclear dye DAPI (blue).
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Liang-Chun Wang, Department of Cell biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, United States of America
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